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When DataColor announced the Spyder5CAPTURE Pro package a few weeks ago, I had to get my hands on one. So we had a chat with DataColor and they sent one over for me to check out. The whole bundle includes four of DataColor’s popular calibration and profiling tools. There’s the SpyderLENSCAL, the SpyderCHECKR, SpyderCUBE and [...]

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I’m not sure if you guys are up to date on who Clay Cook is, but you should be. Because as I speak he’s on his way to Africa to climb Kilimanjaro in aid of Charity, it’s a truly kick ass event! More details here. So I’ve had this plan for a while now spanning [...]

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Taking portraits involves so many variables that it can feel overwhelming for a new photographer. What lenses do you usezoom, prime, or a mix of both? Do you shoot full-frame or cropped sensor? Will you shoot indoors or outdoors. Even the subject matter can be tricky, with some portrait photographers working exclusively with families,others who only shoot high school seniors or newborn babies, and still more who do a mix of everything.

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Nine years, thats how long I have been a Flickr user for and I have always found the service to be fairly good value. I like the way Flickr looks and how it presents my photos, I like the fact that I can use the Flickr App to share and show my photos to people [...]

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If youre into photography at some point youve probably had the desire to print and display your work. Whether it be for exhibition in a gallery or local community center, to hang on your own wall, or to give a print as a gift to a friend or loved one, you want to present your work in the best way possible. Treating it as the piece of art that it is. Displaying your printed work can sometimes result in a lot of angst, due to problems printing, decisions with regards to matting and framing,... more

Burning man is probably one of the best places in the world to get some exciting photos going. Sadly, not without a price. Roger Cicala ofLensRental tells that after each Burning Man festival he s faced with the task of cleaning (and sometimes scraping) the gear that came back from the Playa. It is not [...]

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Remember that funny story about eagles being trained to clean the airspace of illegal drones? Well, things just got serious. The program started with one eagle, so the chances of the bird catching a drone somewhere in the duch airspace were pretty random. but the program is gaining momentum and more eagles are begin trained. [...]

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We got our hands on aSmallRig’ Sony A7x camera cage (its good for the A7II, A7RII & A7SII) , and we love it. I am going to go and break it down and explain the impact it has on my workflow in a second, but first… Of course to review a cage, I would first [...]

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Earlier I rounded up several images of fall leaves to get you thinking about shooting the autumn colors.

Now it’s your turn to get shooting.

By Pedro Fernandes

By Randi Hausken

Weekly Photography – Fall Leaves

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Despite doing everything possible to kill off analogue photography, Fuji have done wonders for instant film. The trend has seen a resurgence in recent years, becoming extremely popular. This has not gone unnoticed, especially by Leica. Leica have now announced that they’re producing their own instant film camera, the SOFORT (German for “instant”). IT is [...]

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